1. Importance of Shared Reading

2. First Graders and Reading  Letter Sound Relationships –learning how to decode new words by applying the letter-sound relationship for single letters, pairs of letters, such as sh or er, and short and long vowel patterns, such as the silent e  Reading for Meaning –First graders learn to derive meaning from what is read to her and what she reads. Students can recognize the sequence of events in a story, and their cause and effect, as well as make predictions.  Read Aloud –Listening to books read aloud gives first-graders models of fluent reading and helps them develop a positive attitude toward books. It also helps them understand vocabulary and language patterns in texts

3. Shared Reading What is shared reading? –Shared reading is an interactive reading experience. Students join in the reading of a big book, poem, song, or article, with enlarged text that the whole class can see, guided by the teacher. During the reading, children are actively involved. The teacher may pause in the reading to introduce print conventions, teach vocabulary, introduce a reading skill, encourage the students to predict what comes next, and more. The book, poem, song, or article is read multiple times over several days.

4. Reading Strategies Taught During Shared Reading Reading for fun Recognizing rhyme One to one matching Identify vocabulary Expression Main Idea Concepts of Print Fluency Author’s style High Frequency Words Punctuation Beginning Sounds Ending Sounds

5. What does shared reading look like in the classroom?

6. Shared Reading in the Classroom

7. Big Books Mrs. Wishy-WashyMrs. Wishy-Washy’s Farm

8. Poems Fall is here Fall is piles of crunch leaves orange, gold, and red. Fall is a sweater with long sleeves, and blankets on the bed. Fall is football, Fall is pumpkins, Fall’s where summer ends.

9. Poem Popcorn Pop pop popcorn, Popping in the pot. Pop pop popcorn, Eat it while it’s hot! Pop pop popcorn, Butter on the top. When I eat popcorn I can’t stop!

10. Classroom Charts

11. Songs My country, 'tis of Thee My country, 'tis of Thee, Sweet Land of Liberty Of thee I sing; Land where my fathers died, Land of the pilgrims' pride, From every mountain side Let Freedom ring.

12. Shared Reading & Math Singing to the tune of Happy Birthday 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21, 24, 27, 30, 33, 36

13. Happy Reading! The End